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People just want a day off and a reason to go shopping for sales...

I was not in tending a go after whitey post, my point was pointing out that natives were brutal to their neighborhing tribes does not magically excuse what colonial powers did. All empires raped pillaged and destroyed. But we tend to glorify one....european settlers. Hispanics can show pride...

Ahhh the old..... George Washington treated his slaves well argument...

I was just saying all people since the beginning of time conquered neighborhing lands and committed shitty acts. it was basically survival and was brutal. But when white Europeans do it, we build them statues and tend to forget about how they come in and kill everyone and make them slaves or...

Better said to document passage to the Carribean and he touched South America using what we call them now. If we take the common usage of America he is given a federal holiday and hero status in a country where he has zero connection with... yet no one questions it and why it became a...

When is the bad side of Columbus ever discussed? In Latin America the Spaniards wrote the history because they wiped out most of the local population. No one wants to erase Columbus from history but why should he get a day to celebrate him in a country he never stepped foot in.. Do we have...

Italy did not exist in 1490s.....

Columbus was clearly no friend of native peoples, but a document discovered 10 years ago in Simancas, Spain, suggests he was an equal-opportunity tyrant. Witnesses testified that his brief government of Hispaniola was marked by routine cruelty not only to the native Taínos but also to Spaniards...

Nobody has a aholiday to celebrate the brutality of the local population but we have a holiday to celebrate a guy who thinks he discovered a land people already lived on and then enslaved and killed the locals in his quest for gold.... there is nothign Christian about what the people did to the...

You do know that Columbus was arrested and sent back in chains to Spain for the atrocities he committed in Haiti.... are you defending Columbus? Columbus’s governance of Hispaniola could be brutal and tyrannical. Native islanders who didn’t collect enough gold could have their hands cut off...

She has to be getting some trump dick.... not sure why she has her batshit crazy infatuation with making everything about trump...

All of OSHA's regulations are related to health.... it is like in the actually title...

the government mandating you wear goggles and glvoes while oeprating machinery is not really controversial.. who is going to object to wearing goggles and gloves when ther ule making was supported by evidence how such measures reduce workplace accidents and loss of eyes or limbs. You cannot...

Welcoem back NY Hood! A Columbus shipmate, Miguel Cuneo, wrote that “When our caravels … were to leave for Spain, we gathered … 1,600 male and female ‘Indians’ … on Feb. 17, 1495 … (and) we let it be known… that ... (any of the sailors) who wanted to take … them could do so.” Cuneo took a...

A private employer fires someone who after putting in a vaccine requirement, this employee decides they dont want to get vaccinated. This is the private employers decision and thus fires the employee. Employee sues and court finds private employer has right to put policy in place and worker...

If I give you a penny the first day, 2 pennnies the day after, 4 pennnies after that and keep doubling for a month, how much money will I have paid you?

Ahhh another boast of how much money some anonymous braggert makes and they are richer than God.... yeah... WOMP Womp womp

Everything has to be put in perspective...especially when teh narrative goes away.. NY below has way more population and never spiked above 7500 since the Spring and has held steady while Florida spiked to 40,000 for many days. Compare the charts of NY and FL and tell me which state had less...

You get what you pay for when you fly budget :). That is why most of those videos of idtios doing any stupid stuff on flights is usually Southwest, Frontier, etc.. Southwest your fare is for the ticket alone. If you want a seat, a pilot and food you pay extra.

My health is being put at risk by other drivers, which are regulated heavily. So if COVID is putting me at risk why not regulate people who could carry COVID by your argument...vaxxing and masks is a good strategy to reduce the spread and protect everyone rather than pick and choose. Your...